Patents by Inventor Markus Nilsson
Markus Nilsson has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230414852Abstract: A peritoneal dialysis (“PD”) system includes a PD fluid pump, a disinfection loop including the PD fluid pump, the disinfection loop including PD fluid used for disinfecting the disinfection loop, and an acid solution source positioned and arranged to supply an acid solution to the disinfection loop during disinfection using the PD fluid. The disinfection loop includes an airtrap and a pressure sensor positioned and arranged to sense PD fluid pressure during disinfection, the pressure sensor outputting to a control unit, the control unit configured to open at least one gas valve located along at least one gas line leading to an upper portion of the airtrap when the PD fluid pressure reaches or exceeds a threshold PD fluid pressure due to gas formation caused by mixing the acid solution with the PD fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Oskar Erik Frode Styrbjörn Fällman, Per-Olof Borgqvist, Bjorn Ericson, Markus Nilsson
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Patent number: 11747423Abstract: Inventive technology is directed to diffusion weighted magnetic resonance measurements. In an embodiment, a method for performing a diffusion weighted magnetic resonance measurement on a sample includes operating a magnetic resonance scanner to apply a diffusion encoding sequence to the sample. The method also includes operating the magnetic resonance scanner to acquire from the sample one or more echo signals. The diffusion encoding sequence includes a diffusion encoding time-dependent magnetic field gradient g(t) with non-zero components gl(t) along at least two orthogonal directions y and z, and a b-tensor having at least two non-zero eigenvalues, the magnetic field gradient comprising a first and subsequent second encoding block.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Random Walk Imaging ABInventors: Irvin Teh, Samo Lasic, Markus Nilsson, Filip Szczepankiewicz
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Publication number: 20230248889Abstract: A peritoneal dialysis (“PD”) system includes a plurality of PD fluid components, a reusable PD fluid line selectively fluidly communicating with the PD fluid components, a source of PD fluid selectively fluidly communicating with the reusable PD fluid line, a source of anti-scaling fluid selectively fluidly communicating with the reusable PD fluid line, and a control unit configured to (i) operate the plurality of PD fluid components during treatment using PD fluid from the source heated to a treatment temperature, and (ii) circulate unused PD fluid heated to a disinfection temperature in combination with anti-scaling fluid from the source of anti-scaling fluid after treatment for disinfecting the plurality of PD fluid components and the reusable PD fluid line, the anti-scaling fluid provided in an amount configured to lower the pH of the unused PD fluid to a level below which precipitates are formed and above which the pH causes disinfection.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Markus Nilsson, Michael Pettersson, Oskar Erik Frode Styrbjorn Fallman, Per-Olof Borgqvist, Sophie Sandblad
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Patent number: 11525880Abstract: Disclosed is a method for generating a time-dependent magnetic field gradient in diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging G(t)=[Gx(t)Gy(t)Gz(t)]T, which is asymmetric in time with respect to a refocusing pulse, by meeting one or more of the requirements: A=?0TEh(t)G(t)G(t)Tdt is zero, where TE is an echo time and h(t) is a function of time which is positive during an interval prior to the refocusing pulse and negative during a time interval after the refocusing pulse); minimize A or m=(Tr[AA])1/2 where A=?P1G(t)G(t)Tdt??P2G(t)G(t)Tdt where P1 and P2 represent time intervals prior to and subsequent to the refocusing pulse; m is smaller than a threshold value. an attenuation factor AF p = exp ? ( - t T ? 2 * ) due to T2* relaxation is one. Signal attenuation due to concomitant field gradients, regardless of the shape or orientation of the diffusion encoding b-tensor and the location of signal is hereby minimized.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: RANDOM WALK IMAGING ABInventors: Filip Szczepankiewicz, Markus Nilsson
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Publication number: 20220221542Abstract: According to a first aspect of the present inventive concept, there is provided a method for performing a diffusion weighted magnetic resonance measurement on a sample, the method comprising: operating a magnetic resonance scanner to apply a diffusion encoding sequence to the sample; and operating the magnetic resonance scanner to acquire from the sample one or more echo signals; wherein the diffusion encoding sequence comprises a diffusion encoding time-dependent magnetic field gradient g(t) with non-zero components gl(t) along at least two orthogonal directions y and z, and a b-tensor having at least two non-zero eigenvalues, the magnetic field gradient comprising a first and subsequent second encoding block, wherein an n-th order gradient moment magnitude along direction l ? (y, z) is given by Mnl(t)|=|?0tgl(t?)t?n dt?| and the first encoding block is adapted to yield, at an end of the first encoding block: along said direction y, |Mny(t)|?Tn for each 0?n?m, where Tn is a predetermined n-th order thresholdType: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: CR Development ABInventors: Irvin Teh, Samo Lasic, Markus Nilsson, Filip Szczepankiewicz
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Patent number: 11061096Abstract: According to an aspect of the present inventive concept there is provided a method of performing diffusion weighted magnetic resonance measurements on a sample, the method comprising: performing a plurality of diffusion weighted magnetic resonance measurements on the sample, wherein said plurality of measurements includes: a first measurement with a first diffusion encoding sequence having a tensor representation with three non-zero eigenvalues, a second measurement with a second diffusion encoding sequence, and a third measurement with a third diffusion encoding sequence, wherein the second and the third diffusion encoding sequence have different spectral content.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: CR Development ABInventors: Samo Lasic, Daniel Topgaard, Markus Nilsson, Hans Magnus Henrik Lundell
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Patent number: 10948560Abstract: According to an aspect of the present inventive concept there is provided a method of performing diffusion weighted magnetic resonance measurements on a sample, the method includes performing diffusion weighted magnetic resonance measurements on the sample, where the measurements include a first measurement with a first diffusion encoding sequence having a first diffusion weighting tensor representation B1 with at least two non-zero eigenvalues and a second measurement with a second diffusion encoding sequence having a second diffusion weighting tensor representation B2 with at least two non-zero eigenvalues.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: CR Development ABInventors: Samo Lasic, Daniel Topgaard, Markus Nilsson, Hans Magnus Henrik Lundell
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Publication number: 20200284865Abstract: According to an aspect of the present inventive concept there is provided a method for diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging, comprising: generating by a gradient coil of a magnetic resonance imaging scanner a time-dependent magnetic field gradient G(t)=[Gx(t)Gy(t)Gz(t)]T, wherein the gradient G is asymmetric in time with respect to a refocusing pulse and wherein the gradient G is such that A=?0TEh(t)G(t)G(t)Tdt is zero, where TE is an echo time and h(t) is a function of time which is positive during an interval prior to the refocusing pulse and negative during a time interval after the refocusing pulse.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2018Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Filip Szczepankiewicz, Markus Nilsson
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Patent number: 10649057Abstract: A method for MRI includes performing an MRI experiment on a material to acquire an echo attenuation data set using a gradient modulation scheme comprising 1D diffusion encoding and to acquire an echo attenuation data set using a gradient modulation scheme comprising 2D diffusion encoding, determining respective first-order deviations ?2 from mono-exponential decay in said echo attenuation data sets, and generating MRI parameter maps or MR image contrast based on said first-order deviations ?2.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: CR Development ABInventors: Daniel Topgaard, Samo Lasic, Markus Nilsson
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Publication number: 20190361083Abstract: According to an aspect of the present inventive concept there is provided a method of performing diffusion weighted magnetic resonance measurements on a sample, the method comprising: performing a plurality of diffusion weighted magnetic resonance measurements on the sample, wherein said plurality of measurements includes: a first measurement with a first diffusion encoding sequence having a tensor representation with three non-zero eigenvalues, a second measurement with a second diffusion encoding sequence, and a third measurement with a third diffusion encoding sequence, wherein the second and the third diffusion encoding sequence have different spectral content.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Samo Lasic, Daniel Topgaard, Markus Nilsson, Hans Magnus Henrik LUNDELL
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Publication number: 20190265323Abstract: According to an aspect of the present inventive concept there is provided a method of performing diffusion weighted magnetic resonance measurements on a sample, the method comprising: performing diffusion weighted magnetic resonance measurements on the sample, wherein said measurements includes: a first measurement with a first diffusion encoding sequence having a first diffusion weighting tensor representation B1 with at least two non-zero eigenvalues, a second measurement with a second diffusion encoding sequence having a second diffusion weighting tensor representation Bz with at least two non-zero eigenvalues, wherein the first tensor representation B1 and the second tensor representation Bz have a same number of non-zero eigenvalues, the eigenvalues of the first tensor representation B1 matching the eigenvalues of the second tensor representation Bz, and wherein the first and the second diffusion encoding sequences are configured to present a matching average spectral content, and to present a diffType: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2017Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Samo Lasic, Daniel Topgaard, Markus Nilsson, Hans Magnus Henrik LUNDELL
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Patent number: 10383287Abstract: A vertical planter for growing plants includes a frame, a plurality of support planes each having a support surface for supporting at least one plant, wherein the plurality support planes are supported by the frame and a nutrient supply system including a nutrient distribution feature for delivering liquid nutrient to the support surface of a uppermost support plane, a nutrient conducting arrangement for conducting liquid nutrient from the uppermost support plane to a lowermost support plane via the support surface of intermediate support planes, and nutrient receiving feature for receiving liquid nutrient from the support surface of the lowermost support plane.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: 3GREN OYInventors: Tuukka Kingelin, Markus Nilsson
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Publication number: 20190187233Abstract: The present invention describes a method for quantifying microscopic diffusion anisotropy and/or mean diffusivity in a material by analysis of echo attenuation curves acquired with two different gradient modulations schemes, wherein one gradient modulation scheme is based on isotropic diffusion weighting and the other gradient modulation scheme is based on non-isotropic diffusion weighting, and wherein the method comprises analyzing by comparing the signal decays of the two acquired echo attenuation curves.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2019Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: CR Development ABInventors: Daniel TOPGAARD, Samo Lasic, Markus Nilsson
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Patent number: 10295639Abstract: The present invention describes a method for magnetic resonance (MR) and/or MR imaging, comprising acquisition of signals and MR images originating from a RE and gradient sequence causing isotropic diffusion weighting of signal attenuation, wherein the isotropic diffusion weighting is achieved by one time-dependent dephasing vector q(t) having an orientation, wherein the isotropic diffusion weighting is proportional to the trace of a diffusion tensor D, and wherein the orientation of the time-dependent dephasing vector q(t) is either varied discretely in more than three directions in total, or changed continuously, or changed in a combination of discretely and continuously during the gradient pulse sequence, 0?t?echo time, where t represents the time. The method may be performed during a single shot (single MR excitation).Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: CR Development ABInventors: Daniel Topgaard, Samo Lasic, Markus Nilsson
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Patent number: 10202740Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method for, with a first and a second hand operated control means (11a, 11b), controlling movement on a work tool (5) for a construction machine (1). The construction machine (1) comprises a lower carriage (2), a top (3), a digging arm (4) and a work tool (5). The digging arm (4) comprises an inner link arm (4a) with a first and a second inner link arm end (4a1, 4a2) and an outer link arm (4b) with a first and a second outer link arm end (4b1, 4b2). The work tool (5) is secured in the second outer link arm end (4b2) via an attachment device (6) which enables controlled rotation and controlled tilting of the work tool (5) in relation to the outer link arm (4b).Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2014Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: STEELWRIST ABInventors: Stefan Stockhaus, Markus Nilsson
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Patent number: 9995812Abstract: The present invention describes a method for quantifying microscopic diffusion anisotropy and/or mean diffusivity in a material by analysis of echo attenuation curves acquired with two different gradient modulations schemes, wherein one gradient modulation scheme is based on isotropic diffusion weighting and the other gradient modulation scheme is based on non-isotropic diffusion weighting, and wherein the method comprises analyzing by comparing the signal decays of the two acquired echo attenuation curves.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: CR Development ABInventors: Daniel Topgaard, Samo Lasic, Markus Nilsson
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Patent number: 9891302Abstract: According to an aspect of the present inventive concept there is provided a method for quantifying isotropic diffusion and/or anisotropic diffusion in a sample, the method comprising: performing diffusion weighted magnetic resonance measurements on the sample using diffusion encoding magnetic gradient pulse sequences Gi=1. . . m, wherein each magnetic gradient pulse sequence Gi is generated such that a diffusion encoding tensor bi for the magnetic gradient pulse sequence Gi has one to three non-zero eigenvalues, where bi=Formula (I), qi(t) is proportional to Formula (II) and t is an echo time.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: CR DEVELOPMENT ABInventors: Daniel Topgaard, Samo Lasic, Markus Nilsson
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Publication number: 20180017648Abstract: The present invention describes a method for magnetic resonance (MR) and/or MR imaging, comprising acquisition of signals and MR images originating from a RE and gradient sequence causing isotropic diffusion weighting of signal attenuation, wherein the isotropic diffusion weighting is achieved by one time-dependent dephasing vector q(t) having an orientation, wherein the isotropic diffusion weighting is proportional to the trace of a diffusion tensor D, and wherein the orientation of the time-dependent dephasing vector q(t) is either varied discretely in more than three directions in total, or changed continuously, or changed in a combination of discretely and continuously during the gradient pulse sequence, 0?t?echo time, where t represents the time. The method may be performed during a single shot (single MR excitation).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: January 18, 2018Applicant: CR Development ABInventors: Daniel TOPGAARD, Samo LASIC, Markus NILSSON
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Patent number: 9791534Abstract: The present invention describes a method for magnetic resonance (MR) and/or MR imaging, comprising acquisition of signals and MR images originating from a RF and gradient sequence causing isotropic diffusion weighting of signal attenuation, wherein the isotropic diffusion weighting is achieved by one time-dependent dephasing vector q(t) having an orientation, wherein the isotropic diffusion weighting is proportional to the trace of a diffusion tensor D, and wherein the orientation of the time-dependent dephasing vector q(t) is either varied discretely in more than three directions in total, or changed continuously, or changed in a combination of discretely and continuously during the gradient pulse sequence, 0?t?echo time, where t represents the time. The method may be performed during a single shot (single MR excitation).Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: CR DEVELOPMENT ABInventors: Daniel Topgaard, Samo Lasic, Markus Nilsson
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Patent number: 9783951Abstract: A quick coupler (1) for attaching a tool (2), comprising an attachment bracket with two parallel attachment pins (3a, 3b), to an earth moving vehicle, where the quick coupler (1) comprises a frame (4) with a first cutout (5) and a second cutout (6) arranged substantially perpendicular to each other, which are adapted to cooperate with the respective attachment pin (3a, 3b) of the tool (2). The quick coupler (1) further comprises at least one, in relation to the frame (4) moveable locking arrangement (9), adapted to delimit the second cutout (6) in a direction parallel to the first cutout (5), whereby one of the attachment pins (3aq, 3b) of the tool is locked in the second cut-out (6) and at least one locking segment (18a, 18b) arranged to be rotated in relation to the frame (4) in at least a first and a second direction between different positions, whereby the locking segment (18a, 18b) in at least one position delimit the first cut-out (5) and locks the second of the attachment pins (3a, 3b) of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: STEELWRIST ABInventors: Markus Nilsson, Sven Siggstedt, Stefan Stockhaus